censure
noun
strong or vehement expression of disapproval.
have censured
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present perfectof censure.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Other local party units have censured elected officials without punishment.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2023
And in the last century, as courts have censured other monopolies, academics and jurists have noticed a pattern: Monopolies and technology often seem intertwined.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2018
Before the Vatican Council, bishops could have censured an outspoken priest without hearing a word of public complaint.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the University of California, Berkeley, David Vogel, who teaches business ethics, said flatly, "The faculty should have censured him or fired him."
From Time Magazine Archive
These charges will be urged with great vehemence on one side, while those who would have censured the other course will not support or defend the administration for taking this.
From Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. by Josiah Quincy
